[pp.int.general] privacy at customs on airports

[Charly]

It took three days for the airport police in Bratislava to tell their Irish
counterparts, who then had to pass on the info themselves to the Gardaí
(police).

Similar things have happened before: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7419969.stm
Charly


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix at gmail.com>wrote:

> On a related note, yesterday I went to sleep just after reading the
> following shocking piece of news:
>
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/01/05/2319256/Slovak-Police-Planted-Explosives-On-Air-Travelers
>
> "Slovakian Police have planted explosives on 8 unsuspecting air
> travelers. Seven were stopped by airport security, including one man
> arrested and held upon arriving at a Dublin airport. Unbelievably, one
> innocent traveler made it home with 90 grams of explosives, and had
> his flat surrounded by the police and bomb squad."
>
> I mean, how can they do such a thing with a straight face? They could
> have died. A coat was enough for Jean Charles de Menezes to be shot
> seven times in the head. And yet the reports into the shooting of an
> innocent men found no members of the police guilty and security
> measures in the UK have continued to become more invasive. These
> people on the other hand were carrying explosives in an airport!
>
> Testing of security systems? It sounds more like state terrorism to
> me. If the goverment want to do a test of airport security systems
> then fine but use someone who has agreed to do it. I hope those in
> charge of this operation go to jail.
>
> Regards,
>    Eduardo Robles Elvira (member of PIRATA, Spain)
>
> PD: Any Pirate Party in Slovenia?
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